Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-02
NORTH CAROLINA.
A MYSTERIOUS yAIL.pILIvRRy IN
RoBEsoH COUNTY.
The silver City rsir-Two Deaths Call
Aoeepted-A Knotty
Case-Hriefs
Especial telegram to the Dispatch


way and have made good their eScape
The fair at Silver City, Chatham
county, began to-day. Tho weather wa
very cold. A fine address was delivere,
by ex-Congressman A. NJ. Waddell
There was reunion of ex-Confederates
The exhibit is meritor:ous The fail
ends tomorrow. it is the FIRST ever helC
in Chatham county.
News has been received here Of III,
death Of Rev Mr.. Hilton, rector Of the
Episcopal church at plymouth. New:
has also been received Of the death %
DIR. Richard billiard, of Edenton. He
was one of the leading physicians snd
most prominent citizens OF Eastern
North Carolina. His age was sixty-five
years. and the cause OF death paralysis.
Rev. r. L. Gray, Of Pittsbcro', has ac'
cepted call TO the pastorste of the Bap-
tist church at Fayetteville, end Will
preach his first sermon there next sun
day
The colorCd people will mold fair nj
Wilson on the Goth and 27th Of this
month. Alfred Robinson is president of
The society. 1t is the first far ever held
there.
A special train bringing two hundred
studentsand the faculty from Wake Forest
College arrived here this evening. They
came TO hear special sermon by Evan
gelist Pearson at the First BAPTIST church.
The fiscal year of the State ended yes
terday. Some of the departments will
issue reports of their operations during
the year, while others only make biennial
reports. Among the latter is the treasury
department
Congressman John Nichols, of this
district. has left for Washington. He poses
nov as a thorough Independent, but 10y
the Democrats is looked upon as Re
publican.
Congressman Rowland, OF the Sixth
district, is yet III Baltimore for special
medical treatment, but says he hopes to
he in Washington next week. His con-
dition shows Improvement, but Is yet iaI
from satisfactory.
Inc Giersch case appears TO he a
knottv one for the Supreme Court. il
was argued six weeks ago. and no deci-
sion has vet been filed Some lawyers
say they do not believe that an opinion
will he rendered until next Term and
think the court has found the case to be
n puzzlcr. Ii involves the nice point
whether beer and wine are "sYirituous
liquors under the Constitution aud the
local option acts uDder which the cleo
tons on the question of "wet or
"dry were held last June. 1t is the
most important and interesting case of
the whole term.
The appeals from the Twelfth district
will he called next Monday. On the
Monday following those from the
Eleventh district will be called, the
cases from these districts being thus
taken in reverse order. The Eleventh
will end the present term of the court,
which closes Il week earlier than usual,
rs il began a week earlier.
Emigration from the State is not at all
active THIS year. Fewer people have left
than at any time in many years Two
or three years AGO large parties. often
numbering hundreds. were frequently
made up aud left for the West. All that
has now ceased. Some negroes have
gone West this year, but few in COM
parison. Some young men, mainly
touched bv the land and mineral craze,
have gone 20 Alabama. Not few have
returned. They will not find a better or
more progressive State i'll the South than
North Carolina.
An ice factory will be built at Colds
boro' in time for next seasons work.
That town DOW has cOtton-seed o1-mill
and rice-mill i'll operation, but needs
more manufacturing establishments
1t now appears probable that Rev. II.
G.. Pearson. the evangelist, will be in
North Carolina ten or twelve months
longer. He has engagements until next
autumn, ii is stated.
State Treasurer Donald ". Balm,
leading member Of the Methodist Church,
is attending the North Carolina Confer
ence, now in session at Fayetteville.
This city is just completing for oae OF
its colored graded schools one of the
best colored public-school buildings in
the South, and certainly the best in this
State. 1t is very handsome and accom-
modates $50 pupils. There are now
LOO white and colored pupils in the city's
five graded schools, and III three or four
months there will be 2,400, Superin-
tendent f. 2. Moses informs me. The
white people in North Carolina are GER
tainlv doing their whole duty, and some
people think much more, in laboring to
elevate the intellectual standard of the
negroes. In newspaper article, pub
ished over his own signature, a New
berne negro asks What would we do
if il we're not for our white friends ?"
He answers his own query by saying ::
"Not much" Very frank and very
true.
Stephen Freeman, the negro who was
tired tor criminally assaultlng Mrs. Ada
Sellers at Wilmington, was convicted.
There were eighteen witnesses for the
State and twenty-five for the defendant.
The defence of Freeman was ably con-
Quoted. Efforts were made TO impeach
Mrs. Sellers character. Freeman was
sentenced to be hanged on the 22d IN
slant He has appealed 10 the supreme
Court for O new trial.
1t is promised that work on the rail-
way from Durham 10 Oxford shall begin
on the 18th instant Some persons ex-
press doubts as to the fact. The people
of Durham feel much interest in the
matter.
Captain Il. J. Parrish's immense to-
hacco warehouse at Durham is expected
10 be opened on the 10th instant IL IS
claimed thatit is the largest in the State.
Great quantities of timber from this
State are being sent abroad now. Several
companies with large capital are engaged
an this export business. Most Of 1t is
done along the line of the Western road.
The business il walnut timber is espe-
cislly important.
The Piedmont Rihemen, OF Noores-
vile, Iredell county, one OF the new
companies, has disbanded voluntarily.
It's arms will be turned over 10 the Char
lotto Light Infantry, Captain Gray Toole
commanding, colored company at
Charlotte.
At Nebsneville yesterday DIR. George
Mebaae was married 10 Miss Mamie
holt, daughter of Mr.. l.. Banks Holt.
one Of the most prominent farmers and
stook-falsers in the State.